News tagged ‘game’

Here is an example of Augmented Reality, a new type of games on which the iPhone is really good!

The original Wolfenstein is now available for free for the iPhone. You need to jailbreak your phone to get in on the fun. The game is truly a classic. This is a first-person shooter in which we should govern our character among many doors and endless mazes. The controls are "fairly" good, based solely on the touch screen.

Wolf3D avaliable from Cydia, repository ZodTTD.

Grab Sudoku is a beautiful application in AppStore (link) for a price of $0.99. With this app you can play and solve sudoku. It allows users to take photos of sudoku grids from newspapers and can automatically convert them to electronic format, offering the opportunity to play on our iPhone.

The characteristics of this application does not end there. You can also hit a "solve" button and get the answer. You can also take pictures of different sudoku, save them and play whenever you want.

The video below gives a quick demonstration:

3-D Vector Ball is basically a 3D ping pong. There is a multiplayer mode, where you can play with your friends over wi-fi. Watch the video:

The app is 0.99 in AppStore (link).

Here are new screenshots of the game Metal Gear Solid Touch, that will probably appear in AppStore soon:

RedLynx just sent in their new application to Apple. It is a porting of a popular game for PC and Mac, called Monster Trucks Nitro. It will be available soon in AppStore. The expected price is $1.99.

This is one more tower defence type game. You are commander of the dropship Sentinel. You must defend a distant colony from the alien hordes in this stunning new evolution of tower defense.

Features:

• Tactical and unique gameplay which takes tower defense to the next level.
• Use the landscape and destroyable defenses to maximize the effectiveness of your weapons.
• Beautifully rendered environments, towers and enemies.
• Endurance mode to challenge the most hardened of players.
• Compete with players worldwide with the online high score system. View and compare scores seamlessly with the in-game score browser.
• Save your progress whenever you want. Automatically saves during a call.

Excellent graphics. Avaliable in AppStore for $4.99 (link).

Related games:

• TapDefense
• Besiegement
• Fieldrunners
• 7 Cities TD

This is Volkswagen Polo Challenge, a 3D car racing game, which is dedicated to the new Polo presented at the Motor Show.

Hama anounced during CeBIT 2009 two game controllers for iPhone. One of them is a wheel-type. Watch the video:

Mobile Gamepad transforms an iPhone to a remote game pad you can use with desktop games.

Avaliable in AppStore (link) for $0.99.

Ancient Frog is a unique puzzle game. The aim is to move your frog from one end of the screen to the other, to eat a delicious fly. You can only move one leg at a time, and only one foot can rest on a particular spot at a time.

Ancient Frog offers 100 levels of play, 6 species of frogs, a great variety of scenarios in addition to a relaxing sound.

Avaliable via AppStore (link) for $4.99.

Here is a demo video:

BrickAvoid is a new game available in Cydia, similar to Evil Touch in AppStore. The goal is to move the child, rather than take the bricks.

Burbank, Calif., March 2nd, 2009 – Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced Watchmen: Justice is Coming, an online multiplayer game for the iPhone and iPod Touch based on the upcoming film Watchmen, from Warner Bros. By using its patent-pending CloudMMO technology running on Amazon's Cloud, Last Legion were able to create a persistent world for the iPhone in the Watchmen universe. Players can roam the city streets, chat with total strangers, battle with people on the other side of the country, and ride the subway to another part of the city to continue their crusade against crime, all in real-time.

via g4tv

CBS has released TV.com - a new free iPhone application providing access to streaming content from the CBS family of networks.

While full episode content is currently limited to older series such as "Beverly Hills 90210", "MacGuyver", and "Star Trek: The Original Series", more limited clips are available from a variety of CBS-owned 'channels', including CBS Entertainment, The CW, Showtime, CNET TV, CBS Sports, GameSpot, CBS News, ET (Entertainment Tonight), CBS Radio, The Insider, and Chow.

Here is an AppStore link.

via macrumors